Show r AVES BEAT BOATS SUB 8 CREWS SICK SI SAYS ADMIRAl SIMS I M S. S Coordination of Entente F Fleets and Complete Teamwork of Forces Forces Forces' of Sea Acc Accomplished By Fred J. J Wilson General Manager of the International News Service Copyright b by the International News News' F ONDON O fui 24 y ha Ii lb I L en oo I between the f fe fleets ts the of the of allies I I is S a done job German q nan diver crews are re pretty sick and are getting sicker icker every day c. c Thrusting out O a fighting jaw and and snapping napping his teeth with a determined click lick Admiral W. W S. S Sims corn com commander com 1 mander nander In chief of the American American- naval forces in European waters thus summed Bummed up the naval situation to tome tome tone me ne today In the naval building in Grosvenor gardens The admiral was loud in his praise of If the allied sailors and declared declared- that tha-t. the he harmony between them and the the Yankee Jackies could not be more cordial ordial I r- r NAVIES AVIES WORK AS ONE The navies of the he allies are re work ork working ing ng together as comrades in practically cally ally all areas of naval operations mixed said aid Admiral Sims Their forces are under the direction of a a senior enior allied commander There Is is' iso no o continuous naval front but there are re several fronts Each one has his naval aval Fo h and the work of all is coordinated by the allied council The recent glorious work of the the the- British navy at Zeebrugge and Ostend blocked locked those submarine holes at least ast for the time being I am sure that there is no ta American but who 1 is thrilled to hear of those gallant deeds deeds' Unsurpassed even in the annals of ot the ie British navy We Ve haye have mastered the submarine vaunt aunt that it would starve England and nd proved it false The boast that it would stop American forces forces- from reaching taching the battlefields in Fr France Franca nce has as proved foolish With the British navy avy the French navy and the the- Italian alian navy the American navy pavy has cooperated and I can safely say we Ye are re well on the road to winning I HUN IUN SEA sto tOP HOPI HOPE I FADES ADIS We shall shaU do the job completely Germanys Germany's hope of crippling the allies at sea is rapidly fading When the German people know it has laded faded it will ill not be bean an easy easy job for the kaiser and his junkers j ta to Continued on page paJe 8 8 SUB CREWS SICK t- t Continued from page 1 1 1 lead them forward into a a. a successive successive and hopeless shambles of blood and I misery The extremely effective way in I which we have been able to cooperate with our naval allies in hi the best evidence that a united command is i entirely feasible s There has been no question of precedence between us If three American destroyers say and three British go out on a mission the thes s senior officer is in command If he heis heis heis is British he ho takes charge of all I if It American he is in command of the I entire flotilla There has not beer been beena a single Instance in which allied of officers officers of of- I and sailors have not worked I in utter harmony and I am am glad to say our own American officers and I men have met them with as free tree a hand WORK HARD Settling down In an arm chair before before before be be- be- be fore a big desy piled with papers the American admiral then smiled quizzically quizzically quizzically quiz quiz- and said There is Just one thing more Because Because Because Be Be- cause we have been fairly suc successful and perhaps because a large proportion proportion proportion tion of Americans are not seafaring people I 1 am told there is an idea that American sailors are having rather rathe an easy time of It Not so Our boys are taking turnabout with tho allied navies We Ve do not have their age nor thel rold road traditions of victories victories victories vic vic- tories o 0 blue but we have as gallant men and though their deeds will not be known until after the war war Is won I can assure you that all aU American citizens may well be proud roud of them In the long days and nights in calm and storm they do their work worl beside the best of the allied seamen They have havo earned tho praise of th their fr allied comrades Should it come they will die as nobly as the tho next The foregoing is the first Interview given out by Admiral Sims since he was put in comm command nd of the American naval forces in European waters |